[LMB] OT: AKICOTL - definitions wanted
Elvi Dalgaard
elvi at vl.videotron.ca
Sun Jul 1 04:59:00 BST 2007
PAT MATHEWS wrote:
> I have a big popcorn can labeled "Kat Fud." It's a joke. I would hate for
> someone to come it, see it, take it literally, and conclude "She's really
> losing it, isn't she?" Because it's a comic-strip-inspired joke that is only
> funny when one knows the person making it is literate.
>
> If you saw the same message in a cheap apartment in a bad neighborhood,
> you'd promptly assume (sniff) "These people are SO illiterate...."
>
> Or maybe the read the same comic strips I do.
>
Far Side?
Elvi
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